5th June, 2019
THRONE OF GRACE
David Abankwah
READ: Ephesians 3:12
Let us therefore come boldly unto the THRONE OF GRACE, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
-Hebrews 4:16 | KJV
Presence differs from person to person. The countenance of one has an influence over the other. You will bear with me that, there are people you find hard to approach and people you find very easy to present yourself to. Many at times, it depends on how the person carries himself and the way the way the person is. I quite remember when I was young, I used to have more presence before my mother more than my father. All because, my father was quite strict and will leave me unpunished for what I have done. The disciplinarian approach made me lose interest in having more presence with my father.
When I want to tell my father something important especially about the payment of school fees and other personal interests, I have to hire my mother as a lawyer to present my case before my father – the judge. I was not bold enough to approach my father for the things I wanted, and to enjoy the presence between a father and a Son. Presence is about boldness. Without boldness, you will lose what you should have gotten. Without boldness you can’t approach great people. Boldness too without the right choice of words to say is like a ship on an asphalt road. God is more than just the word great.
We have not seen God before and as we have just read and heard about Him, we sometimes behave funny. We think He is not that great and we develop the habit of doublemindedness and doubt towards His supremacy. You don’t have to see God before you know He is great. If He has been able to create the universe as big as this, then know that He is not that less as you think about Him. His throne is an everlasting throne. From eternity to eternity, no one can take His throne. The Lord Jesus, He reigns, the earth should be glad because He sits on the throne of mercy now, redeeming us back to God.
If we have been living in the Old Dispensation, where God was sitting on the throne of judgement, mercy and grace in Hebrews 4:16 would have been difficult to come by. Today, we take advantage of the blood of Christ and His death to sin and still claim we are living under grace. I fear grace now we have received more than the judgement in the olden. The judgement that follows grace is eternal damnation in the lake of fire and there is no second chance again. Those who were punished in the olden received another chance to receive the good news when Jesus Christ went there for a three day crusade.
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David Abankwah 